Erdman v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 277 Pa. Super. 4 - Hunter v. Port Authority of Allegheny County (1980), Novosel v. Nationwide Insurance (1983)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Plant v. Woods
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.